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09 January 2008

The Best Resolution Ever: LET GO...

Adrian Savage wrote in Lifehack.Org, one of my most tech-things in the whole wide wourld about transforming 2008 into the "Your Best Year Ever". His advise is simple: Let go.

Let go of the past. It's over. And whatever your past resulted into, you probably can't undo them. If only there was a Ctrl+Z or a backspace that is applicable to life, I think I'd be the happiest man alive. But there isn't a Ctrl-X, a Ctrl+Z, or a backspace or delete button life. So I am going to listen to Adrian Savage about this - let go of the past. What I like most about his advise is let go of both the bad and the good - there's no point to replaying either. One makes you want to wish that you could've/would've done something else - and the other is actually pretty much the same thing - only, you want to prolong the enjoyment.Let go of guilt. This is perhaps (as with most letting-go's) difficult. You cannot just switch off the "guilt button" and voila - guilt is one! Bu I would agree with him - it is useless emotion. Ad yet, I find myself stuck in it sometimes - mistaking guilt for conscience or remorse. Perhaps the line between guilt and remorse are thin - but remorse carries with it the possibility of not doing it again. Guilt simply mopes.Let go of resentment, let go of revenge. For the last four weeks of my life, I have discovered things that would have led me to plan the most complicated of revenge plans because I was truly hurt. I vowed revenge on the players - only to realize that if I were to do that, I would be no more savage and hateful as they are. I choose the high-road - and I choose to look at them with compassion. How difficult was that to do - midst anger, rising blood pressures... But what a relief to simply let go.

And his last advice is "Let go of Joy".

At first, I didn't understand why I had to let go of joy. Until I realized that when we get obsessed with happiness - or joy - by our own terms (which typically is materialistic, financial-orientated or physically-related), that's when we suffer because of the trek to find joy.

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